One year after Harvey Weinstein’s landmark #MeToo conviction in New York was overturned, the former Hollywood producer is once again facing a jury, as his retrial began Wednesday morning in Manhattan criminal court.

Weinstein is charged with two counts of committing a “criminal sexual act” in the first degree and one count of third-degree rape, following accusations by three women. One of the accusers, Kaja Sokola — previously referred to as Complaining Witness No. 3 — did not testify during his 2020 trial. In September of last year, Weinstein was indicted on an additional sex crimes charge after the then-unidentified Sokola accused Weinstein of performing oral sex on her in a Manhattan hotel on one occasion between April 29, 2006, and May 6, 2006.

The disgraced movie mogul had been found guilty of sexually abusing the other two accusers — Jessica Mann and former TV production assistant Miriam Haley — but those convictions were later overturned. Weinstein has pleaded...